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SATURDAY MAY 26, 19$
MEUH CROP SHOWS
BIG EM Off
Fifty Per Cent Reduction Expect
ed in Territory Along
Seaboard
Reports from the territory of the
Seaboard Air Line Railway from Vi
dalia, Ga., to Savannah, indicate a
reduction of about 50 per cent in
watermelon acreage as compared
with the acreage of last year. About
200 ears of watermelons will b
shipped from the territory thi: sea
son, it is said.
The Macon Dublin and Savannah
Railway expects to handle 250 cars
f watermelon; th:
on its line, according to'e-.ti
” mates by C. J. Acosta, traffii
ger. The acreage of watermelons
planted in the territory adpacent to
the road is estimated at 764 acres.
The crop this year will be about'two
weeks later than last year's crop.
This year’s watermelon acreage on
the road is about 50 per cent of
last year’s acreage. The road
handled about 300 cars of watermel
ons last year.
The road expects to handle about
twelve cars of peaches this season.
WALKER TALKS BEFORE
ROTARY AND SENIORS
ALBANY, May 26—Boys of the
Albany High school, girls of the se
nior class and members of the Al
bany Rotary Club and their ladies
were addressed by Governor-Elect
Walker Friday night at the American
Legion headquarters, ih the city hall.
The occasion was the regular an
nual entertainment of the Rotary
Club for the high school boys, to
gether with the girls of the senior
class. I-’aul J. Brown, chairman of the
boys’ committee of the Rotary Club,
made arrangements for the meeting.
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BEGIN HERE TODAY
Calvin Gray occupies the most
expensive suite in the most exclu
sive hotel in Dallas. He introduces i
himself to the hotel manager, to
the president of the largest bank
and to the mayor. For a friend,
who is vice president of the big
gest jewelry house in Dallas, Gray
undertakes a journey to Ranger
W to sell valuable diamonds to Gus
Briskow. He meets Ba Briskow,
Allegheny, the daughter, and Oz
ark, the son. Having made friends
with the family and a good sale
Gray starts home in the same ma
chine hired for the trip to Ranger
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soars up the rise. Swiftly or slowly, as you tor waits to obey your commands —its
please, but always smoothly and silently. youthful eagerness and life prolonged by
You realize a keener pleasure in the vis- the Paige high-pressure oiling system,
tas ahead. Hills suggest only the romance Paige is one of the three quality cars
of adventuring farther. at around $2500 to S3OOO leading in
For all its great power —Paige is gentle sales to discriminating buyers. This, in
to the lightest touch/Your foot controls itself, makes comparison of Paige per
a range of 2to 70 miles an hour. I lore formance, beauty, and enduring quality,
is scant need for gear shifting—though obligatory for those asking the finest. We
it may be clone quickly and easily. And no are glad to demonstrate the unusual ac
clash mars its smoothness —no stalling complishments of Paige and its satisfy
or jerking with the docile Paige clutch. ing performance under your guidance.
CHAPPELL MACHINERY CO.
Phone 234 Cotton Ave. and Wheeler St.
Americus, Ga.
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NOW GO ON WITH STORY
For a second time the driver
flashed a glance at his companion,
i It was a peculiar remark and voiced
in a queer tone. “Yes? Why?”
"Because—” Gipay shifted his
position, there was a movement of
his ipght h;tnd( —the one farthest
away from the man at the wheel—
and simultaneously his left arm
slipped from the back of the seat
and tightly encircled, the latter’s
waist. He finished in a wholly unfa
miliar voice, “Becufyse, my good
man, you are now held up' for the
Third time, and> it would distress
me to have to kill you.”
The driver uttered a loud grunt,
for something sharp and hard had
been thrust deeply into that soft,
sensitive region overlying his liver,
and now it was held there. It was
unnecessary for Gray to order the
car stopped; its brakes squealed, it
ceased its progress as abruptly as if I
its front wheels had fetched up !
against a stone wall.
Gray was grim, mocking; some vi- |
brajit, evil quality to his voice sug- '
gested extreme malignity at full I
cock, like that unseen weapon the
muzzle of which was buried beneath
the driver’s short ribs. “Ah! You
go armed, I see. A shoulder hol
ster, as I suspected. I knew you
had nothing on this side.” Seizing
his victim’s upstretched right hanc
with his own left, he gave it a sud
den fierce wrench, that but
snapped the wrist, and at the same
instant he reached across and
snatched the concealed weapon from
its resting place. He flung the
chauffeur’s body away from him;
there was a sharp click as he swift
ly jammed the barrel of the auto
matic back and let it fly into place
The entire maneuver had been
deftly executed, even yet the object
of the assault was speechless.
“Now then”—the passenger freed
about in his seat and showed his
teeth in a smile—“it is customary to
permit the condemned to enjoy the
last word. What have you to say
for yourself?”
“If you think it’s funny to jab a,
gun in a man’s belly when he ain’t
lookin’—.”
‘A gun? My simple friend, you
have —or had—the only gun in this
party, and you may thank watever
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gods you worship that you didn’t
try to use it, for—l would have been
rough with you. This is the gun I
used to stick you up.” With a
rigidly outthrust thumb Gray prod
ded the driver in the side. ‘Simple,
isn’t it? And no chance for acci
dents.” The speaker’s shoulders
were shaking.
“Well, I”ll be damned!”
“Not a doubt of it!” chuckled the
other. “Especiaßy if you follow in
the course you have chosen. And a
similar fate wil Icvcrtake your pal,
Mallow. It might save you several
miles of bad walking to tell me
where Mallow is waiting to hign
jack me. . . No?”
“Go to hell!’
“Very well. Oblige me now’ by
getting out. . . . And make . it
snappy!”
- The driver did as directed. Gray
pocketed the automatic, slipped in
behind the steering wheel, and drove
| away into the night folowed by loud
and earnest objurgations.
He was still smiling cheerfully
when, a mile further on, he brought
the car to a stop and clambered out.
Passing forward into the illumina
tion of the headlights, he busied
himself there for several moments
before resuming his journey.
There w’as no mistaking the road,
but Gray did not bother to stick to
the main-traveled course when de
tours or short cuts- promised better
going, for he knew full well that
Mallow would be waiting, if at all,
in some place he was bound to pass.
At last he beheld some distance
ahead the white glare of two sta
tionary lights. The road was nar
row and sandy here, and shut in by
banks of underbrush; as he drew
nearer a figure stepped out and
stood in silhouette until his own
lights picked it up. The figure
waved its arms, and caPied atention
to the car behind —evidently broken
down. Here, then, the drama was
to be played.
Gray brought his machine on at
such a pace and so close to the man
in the road that the later was forced
to step aside, -then he swung it far
to the right, brought it back with a
quick twist of the steering wheel,
and killed his motor. He was now in
the ditch and outside the blinding
glare of the opposing headlights; the
stalled machine was in the full illu
mination of his own lamps.
Contrary to Gray’s expectations,
the car in the road was empty and
the man who had hailed him was a
stranger. As the latter aproached,
he inquired; . >4 « Sf Wf 1
“What’s wrong?”
“Out of gas, I guess, Anyhow—
I ” The speaker noted that there
was but one new arrival, where he
had expected two, and the discovery
appeared to nonplus his momentar
ily. He stammered, involuntarily he
turned his head.
Gray looked in the same direction,
but without changing his position,
and out of the corner of his eye he
glimpsed a new figure emerging
from the shadows behind hiip- Ver Y
clevey! But, at least, his unexpected
maneuver with his own car had
made it necessary for both men to
approach him from the same side.
While the rst stranger continued
to mumble. Gray sat motionless,
keenly conscious, meanwhile, of
that other presence closing in upon
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Stephen Pace, Manager.
7-9 Ryiander Bldg. Americus, Ga.
him from the rear. He simulated a I
violent start when a second voice I
cried
“Don’t move. I’ve got you cov
ered.’
“Why! It’s — Mr. Mallow!’
AN UNSEEN HAND APPEARED
TO STRIKE THEM BOTH DOWN.
Gray .hitched himself farther around
in his seat and leaned forward in
justifiable amazement.
“Shut up!” Mallow snapped. “Frisk
him, Tony, and—’
The command was cut short by a
startled, throaty cry—a hoarse
sound of astonishment and rage—
and simultaneously a strange, a phe
nomenal thing occurred. An unseen
hand appeared to strike down both
Mallow and his accomplice where
they’ stood, and it smote them, more
over, with appalling torce and ter
rifying effect.
The men understood vaguely
what had afflicted them, for they had
seen Gray lift one hand from the
wheel, and out of that hand they
had seen a stream of liquid, or jet
of aqueous vapor, leap.
Gray squeezed again the rubber
bulb that he carried in his hand
these last several miles ejecting
from it the last few drops of its con
tents, then he opened the car door,
stepped out it and stood over his
strangling victims.
Gray fell to work promptly. The
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YEAR OUT
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of satisfaction.
WE HAVE LOTS OF
THESE
and by our service in every
way, are adding confidence
every day.
When you want to get good
meats, fresh vegetables, etc.
Bragg’s Market
Phone 181
’bottle of cream he had begged from
Ma Briskow he now put to use. With
this soothing liquid he first washed
out their eyes, the membranes of
which were rqw and spongy, and ex
cruciatingly sensative to light, then
he bandaged them as best he could
with compresses, wet in it.
“You’ll breathe easier as time goes
on,” he announced. “YouTl cough
a good deal for a few days, but
where you are going that wont’ dis
turb anybody. Your eyes will get
well, too, if you take care of them as
I direct. But, meanwhile, let me
warn you against lifting those ban
dages. Advise me as they dry out
and I’ll wet them again.”
A blessed relief stole over the un
fortunate pair; they were still sick
and weak, but in a short time the
acuteness of their suffering had di
minished sufficiently for Gray to
help them into the back seat of his
car and resume his journey.
Within a few minutes of Gray’s
arrival at Ranger, the town was
noisy with the story, for he drove
down the brightly lighted main
street and stopped in front of the
most populous case. There he called
loudly for a policeman, and when
the latter elbowed his way through
the crowd, Gray told him. in plain
hearing of all, enough, of his -ex
perience to electrify everybody.
Nothing like this had occurred
during the brief, busv life of the
town. It was a dramatic incident,
but the manner in which this cap
able stranger had handled it and the
discomfiture he had brought upon
his assailants appealed more to the
risibilities than to the anger of
Ranger. Admiration for him dis
placed indignation at the high
jackers; cries for vengeance upon
them were drowned in noisy appre
ciation of their captor.
Chapter VII
Miss Good Plays Angel.
Coverly was at the station
when Gray’s train arrived at
Dallas the next morning. He
was suffering intense excitement,
and he deluged his friend with a
flood of questions, meanwhile flour
ishing the morning papers, all of
which appeared to have devoted
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To close out quickly, my large stock of ladies Silk Umbrellas.
New patterns and designs; new color combinations. Cash only.
Out they go right at the beginning of the season —at cost
All $3.50 Silk Umbrellas • $2.25
All $6 and $6.50 Silk Umbrellas $4.45
All $7.00 Silk Umrbellas $4.95
CASH
W. FRED SILLS
Lamar Street Americu* Ga.
GRADUATION GIFTS
We have a Complete Line of Graduation
Gifts for Both Boys and Girls
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STICK PINS BEADS
CHAINS BRACELETS
CUFF LINKS SAUTOIRS
RINGS COMBS
Pencils, Fountain Pens and Pocketbooks
THOS. L. BELL
Jeweler and Optician
L. T. TURNER, Electrical Contractor
Hoifte Wiring, Etc., at Reduced Rates Month of May. Estimates
Cheerfully Furnished
HS Windsor Avenue Phone 80?
much space to the Ranger episode.
He hugged Gray, and he pumped his
hand; he laughed and he chattered,
he insisted upon hearing the whole
story without delay. On their ways
uptown, the returning hero gave it
to him, together with Gus Briskow’*
check.
“Speaking of your commissions,
how am I going to pay you—not for
the sale you made, altogether I
wouldn’t have done as well, but for
the loss you saved the firm and for
the risk you ran?’
“You may give me anything vou
see fit,” Gray declared, “and I
sha’n’t embarrass you by refusing.
On the contrary, go as strongly a.<
you possible can.’
(loverly actually appeared to bq
relieved at this statement, but h-j
inquired, curiously: “What hava
you ’got up your sleeve? You dont
need money.”
“Obviously not. But I knov
needy object of charity; Worthy
case, I assure vou. I can scarcely
call him a friend, but I used to ad;
mire him greatly, and he is still art
agreeable companion—a man at. om-rt
-apable, extravagant, entertaining
dissipated. Your monev shall go to
him, and with ever” dollar of it that;
he squanders, there shall art
earnest orison to "on.*
(Continued Monday. )
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We. just received a shipment o!
large and small bicycle baskets. Go
carts retired while you wait.
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